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Samrat Schmiem Kumar

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Norwegian
Email s.s.kumar@ikos.uio.no
Phone +47 22 84 11 60
Fax +47 22 85 48 28
Room 433 PAM
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Visiting address Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk P. A. Munchs hus 3. og 4. etg. Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 OSLO

Academic Interests

  • Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies
  • Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Identity and Modernity in India

Higher education 

  •  2011- present date: PhD Candidate at the at the Faculty of Humanities – History of Culture and Religion; Archaeology; Asian and African Studies.
  •  2009: Master of Arts in Peace, Development, Security and Int. Conflict Transformation, University of Innsbruck, Austria and Universidad Jaume I Castellón, Spain.
  •  2005: Mag. Phil. in Political Science and Elective subjects (Philosophy & Contemporary History), University of Innsbruck, Austria. 
                                                                                                                                       

Employment history

  • 2011 - present date: PhD Research fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University Oslo
  • 2008 - present date: Academic Coordinator for undergraduate course in Peace and Conflict Studies, Kulturstudier/University College Oslo
  • 2009 - 2011: Programme Manager for Kulturstudier AS in Pondicherry, India
  • 2005 - 2007: Project Coordinator for arge Schubhaft (Austrian Human Rights NGO)

Ongoing and planned research projects at Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

PhD project: Fragmented modernity. Identity and subaltern spaces in India

See project abstract:

http://www.hf.uio.no/forskning/utdanning-og-karriere/doktorgrader/kultur/samratsk/

Cooperation

  • Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
  • University of Innsbruck (UIBK)
  • Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

 

Tags: India, Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Indian philosophy, Peace Studies, Modernity, South Asia

Publications

  • (2011): 'The Inward Revolution: Aurobindo Ghose and Jiddu Krishnamurti', in: Wolfgang, Dietrich et. al:  The Palgrave International Handbook of Peace Studies. A Cultural Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
 
  • (2010): Bhakti - the yoga of love. Trans-rational appraoches to Peace Studies, Wien: LIT Verlag.
 
  • (2007): 'Eine Reise mit vielen Gesichtern', in: Gaismair-Jahrbuch 2008. Auf der Spur, Innsbruck: Studienverlag.
 
  • (2006): 'Schubhaft – Ein Mittel zur Bekämpfung unerwünschter Migration', in: Arge Schubhaft: Schubhaft- Haft ohne Delikt: Acht Jahre arge-Schubhaft, Innsbruck: Arge Schubhaft Eigenverlag.
  • Kumar, Samrat Schmiem (2011). The Inward Revolution: Aurobindo Ghose and Jiddu Krishnamurti, In Dietrich Wolfgang & Josefina Echavarría Alvares (ed.),  The Palgrave international handbook of Peace Studies : a cultural perspective.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-0-230-23786-5.  Part of PART VI: PEACE THINKERS.  s 496 - 510

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  • Kumar, Samrat Schmiem (2010). Bhakti - the yoga of love. Trans-rational approaches to Peace Studies. LIT Verlag.  ISBN 978-3-643-50130-1.  168 s.

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